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    The Unknowable Robin Williams

    <em>Come Inside My Mind</em>, airing on HBO Monday night, is a thoughtful and wistful portrait of an elusive subject.
    by Sophie Gilbert Jul 16, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: HBO

    “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to pump neurons,” Robin Williams announces in voiceover, over a black screen. “We are about to enter the domain of the human mind.” In the two hours that follow, the director Marina  Zenovich tackles one of the most explosively cerebral subjects in comedy:someone whose creative energy was so vast that it seemed to overwhelm his body in performance, Williams’s limbs jerking and his face contorting as they tried to keep pace with his frantic,

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